The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 6

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LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) STATE RESUL North Dakota voters s heir minds frankly in June. They merely affirmed their decision with great- er finality in November, George Shafer and his colleagues on the Republican ticket both of league and I. V. affiliations merely duplicated their June successes. It was generally ex- pected that sfich would be the case. Senators Nye and Frazier supported Hoover and for | the most part the candidacies of the Republican state officials, diverting only to lend support to their old friend and political ally, Governor Walter Maddock. North Dakota is normally Republican and a nomi- nation under this egis at the primaries is tantamount to an election in the fall. The death of Gov. A. G. Sorlie gave the opportunity for those who disagree with the I. V. A. program to voice a protest vote in the candidacy of Mr, Maddock, but the voters decided that the June decision should be reiterated with greater and more resounding affirmance in November. North Dakota now can settle down to constructive | work for the betterment of a great state and of a most | enterprising people. Mr. Shafer and his associates on the Republican ticket are entitled to the heartiest co- operation in solving the vital problems that confront | them. It is to be hoped that this election will dispel rancor and reinstate the era of good feeling and sound con- servatism of the late Gov. A. G. Sorlie’s administra- tion. After all, the welfare of North Dakota and her people | is the chief issue at stake. There will be honest dif- ferences of opinion as to how the economic problems are to be met, but they can be solved by the united cooperation of all factions rather than through pres- sure of narrow partisan action or foolish reprisals. "Mr. Shafer and his associates can do much to reach a common ground as between the two factions whose differences are more imaginary than real. That is the great problem that confronts the new administra- tion which goes into office next January with a direct mandate of the people that there shall be no extension of state industrialism and that every effort shall be put forth to maintain a wise economy. The electorate snowed under the proposition to bond | the state to pay off depositors in closed banks. This result was generally expected and merely reflects the attitude of the taxpayers of this state toward any! movement to increase the tax burden, There is plenty of food for thought in Tuesday’s election returns; much that shows a great change in the North Dakota voter's attitude toward state industrialism. The voters have placed the state industries wholly in the hands of the Independent faction; they have en- dorsed the platform of the Jamestown convention. | Those who have the best interests of North Dakota at heart will uphold the hands of the state officials elected Tuesday in every worthy effort put forth to improve conditions in our beloved state. There is a big job ahead. It’s the people’s as much as the officials’. OVERTAXED Sometimes Americans get mad at their tax collec- tors, but, after all, they probably are a pretty reason- able crowd. They seem to recognize the fact that a man has a right to.at least half of his earnings, and they have not been hasty about importing foreign ideas on taxation. More than half of an estate left by an Englishman was taken for taxes, which proves what tax collectors can do when they really set out in earnest to do a finished job in the way of getting a man’s money. Doubtless they worried because they had to leave some- thing for the heirs. Probably England has no law that would enable the gover-.ment to take this much of a man’s property for an ordinary crime, but the offense of building up a for- tune evidently is considered about the most heinous offense a man can commit against society. And so it is right and just for the state to step in and take most of his wealth. What right did he have to accumulate so much when he might just as easily have wasted it as he went along? The government that taxes most is the government that must govern most. A tax-burdened people is not a contented people. Men will tolerate almost any tyranny except tyranny in taxation. From our experience with the income tax we learned how far the American people will goin the way of vesisting and opposing an unpopular tax. For recent cute in federal taxes give credit to an insistent public, not to congress. And when state and local levies start tumbling, as they must soon, it will be because the taxpayers have revolted. POOR JOHN COOLIDGE John Coolidge, the son of our president, is generally considered a very lucky boy. has lived in the White House. Setting out to get a job, he didn’t have to read the want ads; instead he took ‘his ‘choice of a number of offers, eventually pick- railroad job, at $30 a week. He has a splendid y advance in the world, and he has the good ;to.our way of looking at it, the young man has ‘Femember when you got your first job. into the shop, office or factory. You were You gradually got acquainted u in the place and made friendships there as the days passed.’ Nobody bothered ression Usually when a young man starts out to earn his own living, there is A Girl. On certain evenings the young man goes to see her, and it’s nobody's business but his and hers. Maybe they go for an automobile tide, or to a theater, or to the beach; nobody .pays any attention to them, which is just what they want. And if, once in a while, they stay out a bit too late, that’s all right, too, harring the comments of the young lady’s mother, Lut John Coolidge has to do all this in front of the |eyes of the entire country. If he goes riding with the young lady of his choice, a newspaper photographer is apt to pop up and demand a picture. If he visits her home over a week-end, people in San Francisco and El Paso will know about it next day. And, if he finally decides to get married, there will be a public stir such as has not attended any nuptials since the city of Venice officially espoused the Adriatic Sea. It’s about as hard a spot for a young chap as could be found. John Coolidge seems to be a mighty likable young man. And the Connecticut girl whose name is linked with his seems to be an extremely attractive, person- able young lady. And it would be only fair if we could leave these young people to their own devices from now on, It’s due them. What if John Coolidge is working for the New Haven railroad? What if he is going to marry the daughter of the governor of Connecticut? Let him alone. Give him a chance. He has a right to begin his career in privacy. L stop falling over ouselves to be surs that every word or deed of his is public property. SURPLUS . Famines are annoying and other shortages that en- courage profiteering are inconvenient, but it is the surplus, rather than the shortage, that troubles this generation. There is the surplus of farm products. It is the root of the agricultural problem, which inflicts upon the farmer the hated mortgage and upon the public the pestiferous and loquacious politician. Since the birth of the general store and corner drug store, the race has been burdened with a surplus of new and old calendars. During the annual calendar distribution period, there is space only for calendars in the postoffice box, store packages and waste basket and on the library table. Accumulated safety razor blades problem in surpluses. provide another You cannot sell them, you can- | not give them away and you dare not throw them away | for fear someone will slice off a finger. Another deluge the prophets failed to reckon with is the surplus supply of paper matches. There is al- ways a dreadful pile of half-used folders somewhere about the house, and per corollary, there is always a domestic situation that is anything but pleasant. Why twenty matches in a folder always oulast twenty cigarettes in a pack has not been satisfactorily ex- plained, neither can anyone account for the present epidemic of paper-match advertising campaigns. No longer is there a legitimiate excuse for even the most inveterate smoker and borrower to beg a light. Just as we let old razor blades accumulate lest one, unseen in a wastebasket, slice a thumb, we let paper matches accumulate lest one of them cause a fire that will cost the insurance company a lot of money. Thus Co ideals make boobies of us all, and presently the whole population will have to rent extra rooms for the storage of rubbish it is too considerate to throw away. CIVILIZATION Americans have heard much in recent years about the civilization of the United States. More particularly a good deal has been heard about the place of the pio- neer or frontier spirit in this culture, and about “the influence of the land on our civilization broadly con- ceived.” At the moment, too, considerable attention is paid to such matters as the problem of agriculture, to its “relief,” and to the “war” between rural and urban America. Long it was proclaimed that this nation was indebted for its virtues and greatness to the pioneer and farmer, and for its vices and shortcomings had the sin-ridden cities to blame, Though conceding that the American intellect owes its striking characteristics to the influence of the fron- tier, to the land and the people living close to the land, a writer in one of the literary reviews discovers “in the cities, and in the forces they represent, a greater vigor and luxuriance of thought, and the real music of the march.” He does not discount all that can be explained by “free land, the frontier and the western advance,” but. he concludes they are far from accounting for Amer- ican civilization. He is certain “the future belongs to capitalism and urbanism.” Possibly some such opinion prevails and explains the present neglect which agriculture asserts and deplores. Possibly this historian h&s but made articulate the notions of the average man concerning agriculture’s gifts to civilization. It is certain, now that urban America holds the balance of political power, that the old sentiment and sycophancy will be taken out of future appraisals of the farm and its contribution to our na- tional civilization. | Editorial Comment | “JERSEY SWEETS” NOT JERSEY CROWN i (Philadelphia Bulletin) Ruling by the Federal department of agriculture that the “Jersey sweet potato” may be grown anywhere be- tween Maine and California or the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Mexico without infringing the pure food laws comes as a sad blow to the New Jersey producers of the toothsome tuber. ‘Jersey sweets” are a botan- ical variety rather than a geographical label, according to the experts at Washington. This decision bears an obvious analogy to the fact that “Irish potatoes” are not imported from the land of the shamrock. » Nevertheless the growers in the sister state beyond the Delaware have a real grievance in seeing the “sweets” of California and Louisiana mar- keted under the same name in competition with the nec- tareous tubers which they have been at pains to develop. Perhaps by calling theirs “New Jersey sweets” some- thing might be accomplished, especially if they called in apt advertising’s artful aid. Meanwhile the Delmarva ‘grower who swears by~his own brand of “sweets” as the world’s most delectable pie material, avoids attaching the geographical: name to his product, but markets it as geen in Delmarva.” The hint might be useful in New Jersey. HE THAT LOSETH HIS LIFE (Milwaukee Journal) All that we know of Charles Hoeffer, retired jeweler of Kansas City, is how he died—and that is all we need to know. At 74 a man who sees 4 young woman drowning because she has lost hold of the inflated tire that she used as a life preserver may be excused if he calls for help, That was not Mr. Hoeffer’s idea of his duty. The girl might be fifty years younger than he, might be a maid in the service of his family, might have taken a risk she had no right to take—what he faw was that her life was in dai What he had to do was try to save-her. His failed; the girl’s own struggle cost his life. But what a glorious ending! Nature had given him a fair share of years. life dre he was ‘ itwWS By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Nov. 8.—Now that bunk and blah are off the air, now that leaders of the politicians’ union are rising from the depths of hypoc- risy and dishonorable tactics to re- assume their shoddy mantles of statesmanship, it may not be amiss to tell what all the shooting was for. One of the Republican leaders— Senator Moses, if memory serves— let the smelly little cat out of the bag in a publicity release a few weeks ago wherein he said that the only motive of the Democrats in making a campaign was their sordid greed for some 50,000 federal jobs. That was all right as far as it went. But there’s a lot more to it than that. In the first place, some- thing more than 150,000 federal jobs were at stake in the election, wholly aside from the tens of thousands of state, county and municipal jobs in- volved in the general campaign, : And it would have been only fair to say that if the Democrats were clawing greedily at the door for those jobs; then by similar token the Republicans were using feet, nails and teeth in a savage, selfish fight to hold onto them for another four years. Anyone will fight just as bitterly and just as unfairly to hold his job as another will to get ue eee That, of course, is what it all boils down to. That is what most poli- ticians really mean when they roar in righteous wrath or bleat piously of law enforcement, the poor farmer, the peril to prosperity or the sins of the opposition, z It is not fair to say, of course, that every politician active in an election is merely worrying about his job. Some hold their jobs securely and merely want more power, though power and patronage are almost in- extricably bound together. Some of the more puissant gents merely want to stand in a little stronger with selfish interests on whom they de- pend for support or even to erect new bulwarks for the poltico-eco- nomic system with which their own interests and those of their friends are identified. And goodness knows how manv of FULLY, NoT BEING UR BOARDING HOUSE aan You MEAN YouR CONSCIENCE ! «Two YEARS (A OFFicE, AA” YOUR ONLY ACCOMPLISHMENT [o EGAD LAD,~I “TELL You “TRutl- f AS SUSTICE IS A BLESSING IA ASHINGTON LET TER, the dirty little boys of politics, un- known to fame, are in the iness not for jobs, but simply for cold cash, Here and there are even some who yearn to serve first of all the best interests of common, ordinary pepole, though of these one cannot recall more than a few. * 8 Nor is it necessary, in questioning the professed motives of the poli- ticians’ union, to assume that the system is completely rotten. The fact is that the people sometimes get a break. That is, there is always a chance that an election result will make life a little happier and easier for many of them. Furthermore, politics is not a closed corporation; anyone can enter it and there is abundant evidence that it takes very little intelligence to succeed. How many federal jobs depend on a presidential election? Well, one starts with the cabinet and diplo- matic service and works down. There are, of course, some pretty swell jobs and some pretty soft ones; re- wards of every degree, in fact, for the type of service rendered. But. let’s take the big bulk. The president appoints 60,000 masters, internal revenue collectors and deputy collectors, marshals and |deputy marshals, collectors of cus- |toms and similar officials. Their salaries amount to nearly $13,000,000 ia year. Then there are 80,000 fourth class postmasters and rural mail carriers, who in almost every case get their jobs through politics. They are paid more than $100,000,000 a year. eee | proved, have to buy their jobs from politicians. though their own political work generally suffices. Anyway, those are the great bulk of the polit- ical jobs and they are the private | Soldiers in an enormously powerful self-interested machine. If a man without political contact gets a po- ‘litical job he hastens to make up the deficiency, When one undertakes to estimate the number of political jobs, appoint- ive and elective, national, state and local, and consider the fact that the jobholders have control of govern- RE-ELECTED WITH WHAT first, second and third-class post-4 Some of these officials, it has been | he ment expenses running up to more than ten billion dollars a year, along with powers over life, property and liberties, it is not very difficult to understand why there is so much ex- citement around election time. Nor why so many members of the politicians’ union are willing to de- grade themselves for the duration of the campaign. , o i IN NEW YORK | New York, Nov. 8.—Like the night club sluggers, the silk-hat gunmen, the gigolo racketeers or the booze ring chieftains, the sinister figures of the drug world have taken to eve- dress and cutaways. furtive peddlers who dodge in and out of back-street doorways are but penny-ante players in a new and tremendous business. A raid the other day on a beau- tifully furnished apartment showed $20,000 worth of morphine, cocaine and other drugs on hand. To finance such a “display window” means the presence of a huge fund. Three women, found upon the premises, were putting on evening wraps, pre- paring to go to the theater. ‘These are the modern-day “peddlers” — beautiful and costly dressed women, who find their victim: jong the piae piasteye and playgirls of the fe. / if They operated about the city in’ smart coupes and sedans, establish- ing residences in expensive hotels. The entire underworld, it seems, has become determined to play the “fashionable game” to throw police off their scent. es Notes from a busy week: On Mon- day to see Samson Raphaelson‘s new play, “Young Love,” and was invited to a party thereafter, at which were Daraey, Gish and her husband, James ‘Rennie... . And fell to talk- \ing with Sam about those grand old days on the Coliternie, pollaieen when was @ poor yout lugging awa: on short stories of tre ‘New Yor ghetto. +. Thanks to “The Jazz Sing- er,” he now owns an island off the Maine coast and clips‘coupons. .|. . And it did also seem to me that, hearing Dorothy Gish’s s' voice | for the first time, she will be a fu- ture addition to the stars of the talk- ing nictares. ie ‘uesday to see J. P. McAvoy’s stcond edition _ of “Americans,” which I Sraneht far less able than the first production of this musical satire. ... But I don’t won- der, since never did I meet a more PERSONALITY AND ACTION Personality, once a matter-of chance development, is now an art cultivated to some extent by the flappers and sheiks from ali ages between six and sixty. Much of our success in the world depends up- on our ability to make others like us, This force of character has been given the term of “personality” and consists of a combination of many qualities such as physical appear- ance, education, tone and modula- tion of the voice, spirit, human inter- ests, neatness, gestures, attitudes, friendliness, cheerfulness, etc. iy bane’ Metin tad Uodgiale is capable of improvement. One should be able to examine himself or herself critically and note short- comings and strive to improve these. When there is some handicap which cannot be overcome, such as short- ness of stature , other qualities should be developed which will make one liked in spite of the defect. It is well known that some ‘of the greatest men in history were short men, and some of the most liked. and charming women are not beauti’ ful to look at. But when these peo ple, with seer begin to mov and speak, their blemishes disap- pear. They appear beautiful, per- sonified with life. Everybody likes to be liked. There- fore, one of the first secrets of a successful personality is to see the favorable qualities in other people’s characters. Cultivate-an interest in the best, both in books and friends. framework upon which your! rsonality is built is health, and the] be ife of your personality is controlled and dire energy. Health and knowledge of eating, sleeping and exercising are indispensable. To those who do not have confi- dence in themselves I would like to quote this old saying, fraught with meaning: “If you want to do a thing, you will have the power.” hen a desire is strong enough to stimulate the body to activity, one seems to find strength for its accomplish- ment. This power comes from some other source than mere food and drink. A man may live a hundrum life for years, and then suddenly he develops some overwhelming ambi- tion he will ‘find in himself more power than he ever before sus- pected. This is also true after a prolonged illness when the body’s forces are so low that conditions seem hopeless. IT fsome strong stimulation comes in. such as the return of a loved one or the discovery of some problem that the patient wishes to accomplish, re- covery often takes place in an al- most miraculous manner, * Under the influence of hypnosis. subjects have been known to do things which they would never have versatile man. . . ./And in case it be not known, here is a fellow who for years conducted newspaper col- umns, while writing books and plays with his left,hand. ... His chief means of income, however, has been the penning of rhymes for greeting cards....From which he garnered the mean sum of $20,000 per annum. «.. Which should mean something or other to rhymesters. ... And this season he has a best selling novel, “Show Girl,” a music show based thereon, and “Americana.” .. . Where he finds time for this and all his other activities, which include new noises for the talkies, don’t ask me. so 8 And to lunch upon the following day with Fred Holman Harvey, who handles the public relations destinies HN DISGUISE f+ AH, H SoY I ViEW “THE DAY Now,—~ we NARY A DULL CARE, ~~~ FREE FRomM “THE BURDEN oF PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY, ~< $ Wea Hol ~~ WHAT A WEIGHT OFF IS A LARGER WAISTLINE fe awTHis GAIETY OF YouRS ABout Not BEING ELECTED, ISSUST A PARROT LAUGH!: ~~ You'LL NEVER GET ANOTHER CINCH Like “THAT DUSTICE Jow,~- UNLESS You of many magazines, and he bade me keep an eye on the North American Review. .. . Here is America’s oldest and most conservative magazine suddenly fallen into new hands and about to stand on its head. ... Wal- ter Mahoney, who took Colonel George Harvey’s post as publisher, is what might be called a big busi- ness man, being the director of a fa- bulously rich corporation, ... But he has a yen for literature as well... . And. I was surprised to learn that there was in these United States a| Mrs. magazine with an antiquity of 114 years. ... And during that time each man whose name appeared at its masthead lived to become a noted figure in American affairs and let- ters.... as James Russell iward Everett, Charles El- iot Norton and Colonel Harvey. ... And, so I note, one of NEA’s former little boys is the editor... . Kenneth Payne, who before the war was @ staff writer, even as myself. BERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) The British scientist who tried to send a message to a woman in Mars has discontinued A monument to the taxpayer is proposed by a Filipino legislator. We suggest . statue foe two fe lawyers upa ’s income tax. Us a ETN NR believed possible in their waking hours. An insane man has been known to overpower several much Dr. McCoy will gladly answer Personal questions on health and diet, sddressyd to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. stronger men than himself. Why can we not liberate these powers for everyday use. There seems to be only one obstacle. We do not have the confidence in our own capacitics. Energy seems to be omnipresent and all that is necessary to obtain it in any desired yore din to remove the barriers of our cofiflicting ideas by the cultivation of helpful, con- structive suggestions to our subcon- scious mind. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Grapejuice for High Blood Pressure Question: Mrs. A. M. writes: “I read with much interest. your daily articles, and would like to know if grapejuice is harmful to people hav- ing high blood pressure. I am very fond of it, but having high blood ¢ pressure would like to be sure whether or not I should drink it.” Answer: Grapejuice is an excel- lent drink and when used should be taken in place of a meal or between meals, but not in addition tocan or- dinary meal. Those with a tendency to high blood pressure should use the grapejuice to which no sugar has en added. Strengthening the Heart Question: F. J. writes: “My age is twenty. How can I strengthen my heart? ” Answer: The heart may be strengthened , through _ systematic physical culture and by living on a careful diet. Only a small amount of the right kind of food should be used and care must be observed in avoiding all inharmonious mixtures of food which produce excessive stomach or intestinal gas. Abnormal Sleepiness Question: F. Z, writes: “I am a man of 70 years of age, have always had good health, but have always been abnormally sleepy, and as I grow older it becomes worse. Answer: The most important cause of abnormal sleepiness is from over-eating. Even though you are a hard worker you probably eat more food than your ‘body requires. The large amount of energy which you use in digesting this food takes away vital force from other parts of your body, including the brain. Try cutting down the amount of food you have been using to about one half and see if I am not right. (Copyright, 1928, by The Bell Syn- dicate, Inc.) [ Our Yesterdays 1 és TEN YEARS AGO * Captain John W. Murphy of Bis- marck, active member of the North Dakota National Guard, died here at his home from influenza. Marion Conklin of Jamestown was in Bisniarck on business and as guest of his son, Fred Conklin. Union church services were an- nounced for Thanksgiving Day at the McCabe Methodist church. The U.S. army casualty list re- Ported Private Emest J. Erickson of ilton killed in action, and Private’ Alro Clark. of McKenzie missing. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The sixth annual banquet of the Fortnightly club was held at the‘ home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Walker. Dr. E. P. Quain was initiated as a member of the advisory board, which consists of husbands of the club members. Miss Lottie Tillotson, who gave an elocution recital here, was guest of » R. D. Hoskins and Mrs. Flor- ence Baldwin while in Bismarck. Harry McLean completed his work here with Cook and Hinds and left for Minneapolis to enter business college. Secreta: iting relativ —_— &£ of State Porter was vis- es in Superior, Wis. FORTY YEARS AGO Major A. S. Guthrie, pioneer. state rouler, was here on business from ierre. The folloming, sts attended the reception whic! Sov Church gave for Mr. and Mrs. John D. Lawler: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ward, Gen. and Mrs. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. 8, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hutchin- son, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Tuohy, Dr. and Mrs. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. :W. T. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wheel- ock, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gage, Mr, and Mrs. 0. R. Barnes, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Bentley, Mr. and Mrs, Dan Ei » Col, and Mrs. Whitford, Mr. and Mrs. John Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. E, H. Wilson, Mrs. C, B. Little, Miss Roye of New York, Misses Lizzie Come- ford, Minnie and Maggie Davidson and Julia Barnes, Oscar E. Rea, ernor and Mrs. | Louis Hanitch and Dr. Porter. announced as 1,838,- 69 against 1,341,264 for J ©. Fremont. wage: ba 71864—Lincoln elected. president. 1889—Montana admitted to the Union. ( TO} Cleveland elected | :